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pancakesmajor
pancakesmajor Posts: 208 Member
edited January 11 in Social Groups
Saw this floating around and wanted to do it! Anybody want to join me?

[img]http://i1353.photobucket.com/albums/q666/PancakesMajor/Working on my fitness/FabAbFebruary2013_zps90d616d1.png[/img]

Post here after you complete your workout and let us know how it went!

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  • demilade
    demilade Posts: 402 Member
    yes, yes I do
  • Ashellini
    Ashellini Posts: 95 Member
    I'd like to try to but not sure if I can do a push up.
  • dointammy
    dointammy Posts: 127 Member
    I'll do it:noway: or at least give it my best :laugh: I know my push-ups and planks won't be pretty but they can only get better.:bigsmile: :laugh: :wink:
  • pancakesmajor
    pancakesmajor Posts: 208 Member
    ^^^What Tammy said!
    Just give it your best shot! Mine won't be pretty either - but we only have to do a few starting off so we'll get better!
    You can modify by doing them from your knees, or off of a bench or wall even. :happy:
  • dointammy
    dointammy Posts: 127 Member
    Just did day one push-ups went better than expected. Thank goodness there were only four:laugh:
  • Ashellini
    Ashellini Posts: 95 Member
    I'm going to attempt this tonight once my boyfriend and his brother go out. Good for you on accomplishing the push ups! I'm looking forward to becoming stronger!
  • demilade
    demilade Posts: 402 Member
    My gym class last night has a core section and man can I feel my abs today. Was it hitting myself in the stomach with a bar bell? Was it the situps? Was it too much breakfast? We might never know......
  • dointammy
    dointammy Posts: 127 Member
    Survived day 2.
    Planks are as ugly as I expected.:sad: Hopefully by the end of this month I can do the exercises without sounding like I'm being tortured.:laugh:
  • dointammy
    dointammy Posts: 127 Member
    Day 3, like day 3,:bigsmile: I can do day 3.:tongue::laugh: :happy:
  • pancakesmajor
    pancakesmajor Posts: 208 Member
    God I'm terrible - it was my idea and today was my first day doing it lol. :tongue:
    Anyway, did days 1, 2 and 3 today. Push ups and planks were better than I expected, though by the 3rd set my wrists were aching so I did the last 6 push ups on a pair of dumbbells, which gave some relief.

    Anyway, yay! :smile:
    Great job everyone! :flowerforyou:
  • Ashellini
    Ashellini Posts: 95 Member
    I attempted but couldn't complete it. I have really bad wrists and couldn't do the pushups or planks as I'm still too heavy to support my own weight but I did the sit ups. I also do tons of sit ups everytime I do my kickboxing circuit. I'm going to attempt this challenge again once I have lost more weight.
  • pancakesmajor
    pancakesmajor Posts: 208 Member
    Day 4 completed! :happy:

    It was painful though, especially after my silly three-fer yesterday, plus I did Ab Jam this morning. :yawn:
    I'm modifying the push ups, using the dumbbells to take the strain off of my wrists and doing them from my knees.
    Also, :ohwell: I can't do a sit up yet (:noway: there's too much belly in the way!:explode:) so I am doing crunches.
  • pancakesmajor
    pancakesmajor Posts: 208 Member
    I attempted but couldn't complete it. I have really bad wrists and couldn't do the pushups or planks as I'm still too heavy to support my own weight but I did the sit ups. I also do tons of sit ups everytime I do my kickboxing circuit. I'm going to attempt this challenge again once I have lost more weight.

    Hey Ashley I think you can still do it with some modifications! I have bad wrists too!

    For the planks, try doing it with your forearms on the floor instead of putting the weight on your wrists.
    http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/exercises.asp?exercise=7
    You can also do it from your knees
    http://www.arthritistoday.org/fitness/exercise-videos-and-photos/abs-exercises/modified-plank-photo.php

    For the pushups, use a pair of dumbbells that have the hex shape (flat edges so they won't roll)
    http://www.active.com/fitness/Articles/8-Ways-to-Modify-the-Everyday-Pushup
    and do it from your knees. If that's still too hard, try an incline pushup (feet on the floor, hands on a bench or a wall) to take some of the weight off.

    You can do this!!!
  • dointammy
    dointammy Posts: 127 Member
    I do crunches to for the same reason:cry: I missed yesturday.:sick: So I just did both yesturday and today. Not fun:sad:
  • pancakesmajor
    pancakesmajor Posts: 208 Member
    Missed another day lol so had to do another twofer. Tuesday and Wednesday workouts - done!
  • demilade
    demilade Posts: 402 Member
    Had a fitness assesment yesterday, I have very poor core strength, lol, I guess this challenge will help!
  • betsij
    betsij Posts: 299 Member
    I wanna Play!! I will start tonight!
    :smokin:
  • pancakesmajor
    pancakesmajor Posts: 208 Member
    My in-laws have been here for a week - I'm exhausted and I haven't been able to get away from them to get the Ab challenge done since Thursday!!! Will start playing catch up today... MAN that's a lot of push ups and sit ups :noway:

    How are you gals doing?
  • pancakesmajor
    pancakesmajor Posts: 208 Member
    FINALLY caught up!! I did 4 days on Tuesday and the rest yesterday! Man my abs are sore!

    I alternated doing the planks on my hands and my forearms because my wrists are sore.
    The push ups I modified as well - used dumbbells to relieve my wrists and did them from my knees.
    But I was doing full sit-ups baby!

    Heading to Maui tonight, but will try to keep up the challenge over my vacay :)

    Good luck everyone!
  • pancakesmajor
    pancakesmajor Posts: 208 Member
    Well I kept it up while I was in Maui but fell off again when I got back on Monday. Crazy, huh?

    So now I'm three days behind, but won't be able to hit them all in a day again - those minute planks are killer! I've been doing sets of ten or twenty sit ups or pushups at a time throughout the day to spread them out. Still modifying planks from the elbows and push ups from the knees with dumbbells, but am doing full sit ups!

    It's disappointing to get derailed from the plan, but we just have to keep at it and catch up again! Good luck everyone!
  • pancakesmajor
    pancakesmajor Posts: 208 Member
    Just did a set in between middle of the night readings for class TODAY- now I'm caught up to Wednesday! But blah, still have 3 days to do! Will try to catch up more later today!
  • dointammy
    dointammy Posts: 127 Member
    I missed some as well I have the weekend off so I'm going to try to catch up
  • pancakesmajor
    pancakesmajor Posts: 208 Member
    Aaaah I'm still so behind. I did a couple sets today, but super duper behind. I need to be more disciplined. I think I'm going to be doing Fab Ab February in March still lol.
  • pancakesmajor
    pancakesmajor Posts: 208 Member
    Sloooowly but surely I am catching up. My abs are tired! Now I just have the last four sets to do in order to finish Fab Ab February (it will have to be in March though lol).

    Speaking of March, I see a March Six-Pack Calendar on shrinkingjeans.net, I think I will start that tomorrow too!
  • pancakesmajor
    pancakesmajor Posts: 208 Member
    Did two more sets today. Now I just have 2/27 and 2/28 to do!

    I couldn't hold my planks for that long though - my tummy is tiiiiired. So it was more like: plank for 30 seconds, pause, stretch, plank another 30, pause, etc.
  • pancakesmajor
    pancakesmajor Posts: 208 Member
    FINALLY FINISHED!!!
    Okay now giving March my full attention!
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